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Pump parts are ORANGE

My wonderful husband made me a Valentine's day meal using thick tomato paste, and then put the dishes in the dishwasher without rinsing them out all the way. It's not something we are religious about, so I didn't even think of it when I put my pump parts in there to wash.

Well, this morning when I went to get them out for work, they were BRIGHT orange, like you get when you store leftover tomato sauce in a tupperware container. It won't wipe off. I ran the dishwasher again, with no improvement.

I went ahead and pumped this morning, but can anyone think of a reason not to use the milk?

P.S. The breast shields look like I'm holding a piece of pepperoni on my girls. It's kind of funny, actually.

Re: Pump parts are ORANGE

I remember one time staining the plastic portion of a grater orange with a carrot. Nothing we did would get it out, and we just wrote it off as a lost cause. Then we tried grating some cheese. It worked like an eraser on the carrot stain! Go figure.